Fortuitous Ash

As a suspenseful score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun builds in intensity, a vividly-costumed cast evokes phoenixes emerging from an ominous Dan Scully set that suggests the work's title.

Keerati Jinakunwiphat's Fortuitous Ash, her first work for New York City Ballet, premiered in the winter of 2023. Jinakunwiphat's participated in the 2021 Fall Working Session of the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of NYCB, where she began to develop this work for nine dancers. Fortuitous Ash is set to two pieces by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun: an excerpt from Run in a Graveyard, and Air Glow, which received a Grammy nomination for Best Classical Contemporary Composition in 2019.

17 minutes